Per this writing, Dutch HEI’s are confronted with challenging times. The University of Twente (UT), in particular, will need to surmount reduced national funding with critical reflections on its activities and will undoubtedly lead to incremental changes to organizational support structures. A challenge UT will address with vigor. One sustainable factor in our internationalization in education remains fortified: global partnerships and mobility of learners. In this context, Erasmus+ will become even more important to bolster this internationalization aim. Per its inception at UT, mobility of our community enforced our believe that in creating global connections and professionals, UT is enabled to meet society needs with creative scientific solutions, in particular in one of UT’s key impact domains (health, safety, climate, chip technology). Moving societies forward, universities are pillars in fostering global partnerships. We choose institutions that align with our academic and social principles, complement research strengths, and that contribute to reciprocal regional growth. UT supports mobility in traditional and non-traditional education, research activities, professional development and global communities building. The aim for this project phase remained equal to the prior project phase: 75% of our student shall have a study abroad experience and staff every 3 years. With over 190 Erasmus+ IIA’s active and with 278 Erasmus+ mobilities realized in this project, Erasmus+ remains an essential part to reaching UT’s mobility targets. On an individual level the objectives were for the UT community to gain new insights in their study field or field of expertise, to bring knowledge onboard in current educational programming and research, share knowledge in the field of expertise or study fields of the individual and grow networks, to learn from peers through exploring different practices and cooperation in a different (cultural, social and study) context and/or education model than their own. Mobility is a key motivator for progression in careers, employability and study as well as professional growth and commitment to their tasks. In turn mobility participants motivated the UT community to go abroad based on their experiences to enrich their professional cycles and studies. For the institution the objectives of mobility were the strengthen the existing partnerships as well as broadening them in the complementary fields of impact and expertise. Mobility between UT and partner institutions was also envisaged to gain new perspectives on resources, innovation and optimization projects. UT was keen to increase its profile and as such aimed to extend networks with existing partner institutions as well as new one, bolstering the academic community's connections and relations. For the region, Twente in particular, the intra-EU mobility was to be seen in terms of return of investment for the region. By developing valuable transversal skills in all types of learners and gained through mobility, employers in the region would increase their success rate in finding a well-rounded competent professionals(in their study cycle or soon after). Though challenges of brain drain persist, it was the objective of the UT to deepen and expand global networks through alliances and educational cooperation in for instance consortia to counter this effect of mobility.